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Genetic and dietary determinants of hypercalciuria in the calcium homeostasis: a narrative review
By: AHEIBAM ROBERTSON SINGH, SANJENBAM YAIPHABA MEITEI – Hypercalciuria is a complex condition associated with kidney stones, osteopenia, and osteoporosis. It is typically defined as urinary calcium excretion exceeding 200 mg per day, although factors such as age, diet, race, vitamin D levels, and genetics influence this threshold. A more practical assessment is the urinary…
From Adoption to Eviction: The Blood Quantum and the Mohawks
adoptions, blood-quantum, Canadian federal laws, demographic control, genetic, identity, Mohawks, reservations, social control, tribal laws, US federal lawsBy: SANDRA BUSATTA – Historically the Mohawks survived as a political-ethnic entity thanks to massive adoptions of people from other tribes, as well as European countries. They counted more ‘galvanized’ Mohawks than full-blooded ones already at the end of the 17th century. While they stopped adopting whole tribes after the Mourning/Beaver Wars, in the 18th…
Genetic Sensitivity to Phenylthiocarbamide -Effect on Body Mass Indices and DNA damage
By: GURSATEJ GANDHI, GAZALJIT KAUR, AMANJIT KAUR, NARESH MAHAJAN, JASMEET KAUR – As sensitivity to bitter taste (phenylthiocarbamide [PTC] perception) has been maintained at high frequency worldwide, its use as a potential genetic marker for food preferences and dietary choices and its influence on body weight/adiposity which in turn maybe a contributor to various co-morbidities…
Obesity, Diabetes and the Thrifty Gene. The Case of the Pima
By: FLAVIA BUSATTA – The great tenacity and perseverance with which the Gila River Pima fight diabetes has uncovered much about the disease. Thank you to Gila River Pima a most significant discovery has made that is genetic discoveries made on samples from Caucasian are not useful for the cure of the disease among the…
Genetic identity in Mauritius
By: SYLVIE MAURER – Mauritius is a small island of 1,865 square kilometres. This is equivalent to a third of the surface of Savoy. It is situated in the Indian Ocean at 20° south of the equator, on the east of Madagascar. Mauritius is a land without any evidence of human habitation until the seventeenth…